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Summary
Standard currency that can be acquired as Loot from killing monsters, selling items to NPCs or other players
Can be used to purchase items from NPC Merchants and Player Vendors
Can be used to purchase items from the Prevalian Merchant and many other places
Can be used to purchase Prevalia Coins from other players
1000 gold coins weigh 20 stones
Dungeon Gold Decay
Any Gold inside of Dungeons that is on the ground or in a movable container will now reduce its amount by 10% every 60 seconds
Any Gold on a creature corpse (NPC) will reduce its amount by 50% when the corpse becomes freely lootable (5 minutes after death) and then will reduce its amount by 10% every 60 seconds afterwards